Martinez, CA – August 22, 2016. Commercial construction business is booming in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California’s largest independent generator sales and service company, CD & Power, is increasing staff and resources to meet the need.

David Saunders has recently joined CD & Power and is heading up the Estimating department. With thirty-years’ experience in the industrial services sector, David brings a wealth of knowledge to help Facilities Managers, General and Electrical Contractors secure the power they need to keep business humming. David also provides the vital knowledge of California Air Quality laws and restrictions, in order to help organizations, meet compliance requirements while saving money.

Generators are vital in crises like powering hospitals during outages. We have phenomenal emergency services that will show up within hours of an outage. Generators also supply power to contractors on job sites. Some construction sites wait months before PG&E can provide power, and we can have equipment supplied within a day,” said David Saunders.

“We are thrilled about our growth and the chance to bring David Saunders on board,” stated Lisa Carter, General Manager. “Our customers have another resource of knowledge to tap into when purchasing, renting or maintaining a generator. Our rental business has soared and we have increased our local and Sacramento rental fleet to meet the increasing demand for temporary or backup power.”

CD & Power is committed to “Powering Your Success” and has spent over 30 years providing sales, rentals, maintenance and compliance services to organizations who need backup power.

You maybe wonder what a “ripple” is and what it means to us here, at CD & Power.

If you were to throw a pebble in to a pond, you notice that the pond does not stand still. It will ripple from the point where the pebble hits the water. It will ripple until it hits the edge of the shore where it can ripple no more.

Now imagine that pebble is a positive influence in a person or in our case a co-worker, and that pond is our Company, and every ripple is another co-worker being affected by that first pebble and continuing the ripple effect as it travels along. Our role model for the Ripple was our dear friend Bob Ojala who passed away in 2010. He made a positive ripple in a room of people and in the lives he touched. At the end of every year we honor the person who conveys the Ripple effect the most that year with the Ripple Award, to continue Bob Ojala’s legacy.

“We gather at the end of every meeting with a huddle of out stretched hands towards the center and shout “RIPPLE”. This ends our connection on a positive note and continues a positive ripple effect that can be carried to our customers.”–Jill Collaro (President)

“It is the Spirit of Bob Ojala, it leaves everyone with a positive vibe, and it’s a wonderful way to dedicate to our friend Bob.”–Don Uischner (Vice President)

“When we ripple, we are honoring a great friend and former employee of CD& Power. Bob Ojala helped to form our company’s “presence”. He was a big bear of a man and when he walked into a room, it felt like the room rippled. His “presence” entered before he did. He always had a positive word and it seemed like he knew everyone and everyone knew him. Your success, professionally and personally were of great importance to him. “–Lisa Carter (General Manager)

“The Ripple brings the company together, together as one.”–Rusty Chester (technician)

If you are wondering what a Load Bank is, it is a device that develops an electrical load, and applies the load to an electrical power source like a generator.

A Load Bank is a great way to provide a maintenance load to an idle generator that hasn’t been used very often, so it can be ready for power outages. If your generator has been sitting and has not been used recently, you may want to Load Bank it. CD & Power can provide this service.

The Load Bank machine plugs into your generator and provides a load of energy. It will run your generator to its maximum power and clean out all the bad carbon that has been building up in your generator.

So bottom line, it may be a good thing your generator isn’t being used, that means you haven’t lost power, but there is that day your power will go out and your generator will kick on and you will want to trust that it will be ready to work with no problems. Routine maintenance and Load Banking will help to ensure that it runs when needed. Same as a car – a driver doesn’t just start up the car and think it will work, they take it for a drive – and that is what load bank testing does – takes a power generator for a drive in a safe environment.